Browsing: Pakistan

In a remote village nicknamed ‘jungle Dera’ in the Khanewal district of Pakistan’s biggest province of Punjab, an elderly mother has not slept for days. She has been sitting at the main gate of her house, waiting for her son.

It is deeply concerning that the malicious trend of characterizing Muslims as ‘others’ or ‘20%’ by prominent BJP leaders which was continuing with appalling impunity is now also being translated into decisions by the judiciary. The discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the grossly injudicious Indian Supreme Court judgment in the Babri mosque case are not distant memories.